My SlimBoat packages place the main slimboat folder in /usr/lib as this seems to be the convention for browsers in Puppy. I believe other locations would be perfectly OK also though.

I have still not been able to get the Flash Player to work in Wary/Racy or Slacko. I did email the developers about it some while ago and they said that they were not sure why, but that it is not a path issue._________________Oscar in England

Downloaded Slimboat 1.1.38, Italian localization, just minutes ago directly from their website. Running it in Puppy Precise 5.6.1 right now and posting with it, after searching the forum to see whether someone else had already tested it - and Xman had!

Just for caution, I chose to place Slimboat in a separate folder rather than in the usual /usr system folder, to be able to get rid of it easily if not OK.

Very fast and responsive, seems to have no problem on YT: if I get it right, it does decode Flash videos perfectly (they should be the ones evidenced by the rotating-balls-circle logo while loading). Also doing fine on a HD video in Vimeo, both in Flash and HTML5 (it's clearly marked there).

A very pleasant surprise was to find a specific link for Puppy Linux in their Downloads page (in English only, no such link in the Italian page): followed their suggestions and all worked perfectly in less than half a minute i. e., after downloading and extracting the Gstreamer libs in place.

Of course a deeper and longer testing is needed, but seems interesting, although not really lightweight - 58 MB against SeaMonkey's 51 (full package).

I have still not been able to get the Flash Player to work in Wary/Racy or Slacko. I did email the developers about it some while ago and they said that they were not sure why, but that it is not a path issue.

This is what I'm getting in Wary 5.1.1, in Help / Configuration Information.
Notice the 0 next to Flash Download Control; everything else is a 1.
What number are you getting here with Puppies that will run Flash?
(In Tools / Options / Download Control, my Enable Plugins box is checked.)

Flash Player runs OK in the Debian and Ubuntu based Puppies.
I looked in Dpup Wheezy and the "Flash Download Control" number is also a ZERO so I guess that's not the problem.

I indicated to the developers that it is difficult for the Puppy community to make a lot of noise about SlimBoat as a Puppy browser if it doesn't fully work in Slacko or Wary.

I was told that they compile it in Ubuntu 10.04 which is why the glibc in Wary is too old. I asked about a specific build for Wary and they didn't rule it out, but I guess it is low priority for them unless perhaps more people contact them and request it. It seems BarryK may be moving away from Wary as an official Puppy now also, but when you add in the Flash/Slacko issue plus the fact that I have found a couple of websites that don't render properly or even cause the browser to crash completely it makes it a semi-showstopper for me which is a pity because I do quite like SlimBoat and it seems others do too.

I have continued to post my packages in this thread because it is not too difficult to do and it seems that some people are using them, but I have thought about knocking it on the head and may do so at some point in the future. There are several other good browsers out there to choose from._________________Oscar in England

currently running version 1.1.42 sucessfully in LxPup 13.10c which is slacko based. Flashplayer now (plugin in /usr/lib/mozilla in LxPup) works. I have installed the additional library files needed by opera per this thread http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=680845#680845. Prior to that, flashplayer did not work either in Opera or SlimBoat. SlimBoat is installed to a directory on my boot partition. Gtk themes found ok, both in LxPup and alphaOS 12.1. Bookmarks exported from opera in html format, imported to SlimBoat sucessfully. Works on several sites I use that now break Opera. I'll continue to use it and try it on some of the other older pups on this laptop.

Thanks for this thread,_________________Pups currently in kennel X-slacko 2.3.2n and 3b6, LxpupTahr 15.02 non-PAE, and trusty Carolina/Carolite (now battleshooters 1.3-vanguard edition R2). All lean and steady pups. Oh, and Lx flavours of unicornpup for fun

Good work! Thanks for letting us know about that. I wondered about how best to approach this and rather than trying to include symlinks to libs in different locations in different puppies I thought it best to include a copy of those libraries in the private /usr/lib/slimboat/libs directory. This makes SlimBoat "self-contained" in that it will still work even if other browsers are removed.

Flash Player now works in Slacko which is a great leap forward. Tested in 5.6 and 5.5

Lots of complaints about the bookmarks bar/menu font size. Played with dpi, lots of things to no avail. Can be set with qtconfig but the qt4 pkg is HUGE. Simple solution is to manually edit the font size in /root/.config/Trolltech.conf. It persists through 'Application style' changes ok and much improves the overall look IMHO. Page font size easily set in Tools>Options>Appearance and with Ctrl+ and Ctrl-.

Haven't yet nicely 'portablized' the 'profile' directory to the boot partition so it is shared by all pups. I have it kludged with symlinks but they are pretty fragile. I've asked the SlimBoat forum about that.

All in all it's come a long way since I last used it._________________Pups currently in kennel X-slacko 2.3.2n and 3b6, LxpupTahr 15.02 non-PAE, and trusty Carolina/Carolite (now battleshooters 1.3-vanguard edition R2). All lean and steady pups. Oh, and Lx flavours of unicornpup for fun

I use opera also so I have them in /usr/lib as well. Not currently running any Deb or Ubuntu derivs..... Does it see other/older libs in /usr/lib in those? /usr/lib must have priority? Run it from terminal and see?

Edit: Created directory data on boot partition. Symlinked to it in /root/.local/share. Firstrun of SlimBoat creates its 'FlashPeak' directory in the common boot partition. Shared by all pups with that symlink.

Font size seems to be capped at 12 or so by toolbar heights..._________________Pups currently in kennel X-slacko 2.3.2n and 3b6, LxpupTahr 15.02 non-PAE, and trusty Carolina/Carolite (now battleshooters 1.3-vanguard edition R2). All lean and steady pups. Oh, and Lx flavours of unicornpup for fun Last edited by Marv on Fri 15 Nov 2013, 13:44; edited 1 time in total

I noticed the cache files have been building up so I decided to delete them. Most browsers let you view the cache but I didn't see any instruction on how to do so with Slimboat. Does anyone know of a resolve to this? ~Thanks

By the way, I'm using Pemasu's Slimboat pet 1.1.19 in Upup Precise 3.8.2. No problems. I also used the newer version with no issues 1.1.42 but I didn't care for it as much.

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